Journal Club Discussion #15: The FAME Scale

Hey readers! This week’s journal club discussion is slightly different than usual. Instead of reading an article and discussing it, we will actually be discussing a scale that can be used to assess the interventions that we learn about in the future. I learned about the FAME scale in my research class. This scale was created by the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) for the purpose of assessing whether or not to implement research findings in practice. I thought it would be a great idea to use the FAME scale whenever we discuss new interventions, that way we can clearly determine whether they are adequate to translate to OT practice. What’s the point of reading research if we don’t translate it to practice, right?! Hopefully this scale will help us make these decisions! AOTA members can access the article that I am using here.

The FAME Scale

The FAME scale stands for feasibility, appropriateness, meaningfulness, and effectiveness. After you read a research article, you can use the criteria set out by JBI to give the intervention(s) a “grade” in each of these subsections. This will help you assess whether you want to use the research in practice. According to Pearson et al. (2007), here is the breakdown (…as cited in Murphy, Robinson, & Lin, 2009):

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